Safety-device.



PATENT-ED-JULY 21, 19o3.-. E; s. SMITH. SAFETY DEVICE, APPLICATION FILEDAPR. 30, 1903.

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E Ian/HAW UNITED STATES Patented July 21, 1903..

PATENT OFFICE.

EZRA S. SMITH, OF ATTLEBOR O, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE R. F.SIMMONS COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

SAFETY DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 734,142, dated July 21,1903;

' Application filed April 30, 1903.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EZRA S. SMITH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inSafety Devices, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing bad therein to the accom panying drawings.

My invention relates to devices used. in connection with watches,lockets, and similar articles for insuring the latter against accidentaldisplacement.

It is sought by my attachment to remedy the annoyance and damageincidentto the fall of a watch or similar article from its positionintermediate a belt and the wearers clothing or between any two articlesof wearing-apparel where frictional engagement has heretofore ofnecessity been largely relied upon, especially in hot weather.

While particularly adapted to the use of ladies, the structure of myimprovement makes it obviously applicable to a gentlemans chain.

To the elimination of the above disadvantages my invention is primarilydirected; and it consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein-- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my novel devicedetached, and Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same engaging a watch orlocket in operative position.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the views.

In the drawings, a. is the head, b the bar, which is outwardly bowed, asshown, and c the tongue of a watclrswivel engaged through the ring 01with a watch;chain e.

Fixed to the upper portion of the'head a or integral therewith'is anupwardly-directed Serial No. 154,986. (No model.)

The application of my device is set forth in Fig. 2. The watch 19 ispendent between and frictionally engaged by the belt 1' and cloth- I ings, and the hook member arches the upper margin of the belt andcompresses the latter against the swivel-bar, thereby preventing arelease of the watch from its frictional seat either upwardly ordownwardly. The hook, moreover, because of its upturned portion,supports the swivel well down within the belt, so that there are noprojecting portions liable to catch or become entangled in adjacentarticles.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

In a device of the class described the combination with a swivel havinga head, a ring attached to the upper end thereof and an outwardly-boweddepending body, of a hook having one end affixed to the head, said hookhaving an upwardly-bowed portion that extends to a point contiguous tothe top of the ring and a depending free spring-tongue that coacts withthe outwardly-bowed body to form a restricted entrance-opening.

In testimony whereof I have aifixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

EZRA S. SMITH.

Witnesses:

F. L. OowLns, F. A. MACDONALD.

